KSquirrel 0.6.3 review

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Baryshev Dmitry

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KSquirrel project is an image viewer for KDE with disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, dynamic format support and tools to resize, convert, colorize and print images.

Here are some key features of "KSquirrel":
Advantages:

small and simple image viewer
extremly fast (thanks OpenGL in earlier versions, and MIT-SHM since 0.6.0)
external decoders (ksquirrel-libs)
flexible filters for filemanager
flexible external tools
you can copy/delete libraries "on the fly"
extended thumbnails
ksquirrel-libs-related metainfo reading mechanism (comments in GIF and JPEG, keys in PNG, etc.)

At this time KSquirrel supports 23 image formats:

Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg)
Windows Metafile (.wmf)
SUN Icons
Wireless Bitmap
Photos from different cameras (CRW, ...)
Windows bitmaps (.bmp)
Compuserve GIF (static, animated)
Windows icons (.ico)
JPEG
ZSoft PCX
PIX
Portable Network Graphics
Portable Any Map (.pnm, .ppm, .pgm, .pbm)
Sun Raster File (.ras)
SGI
Targa (.tga)
Tagged Image File Format
X Bitmaps (.xbm)
X Pixmaps (.xpm)
X Window Dump (.xwd)
Photoshop PSD (RGB, CMYK, Greyscale, Indexed)
FLI Animation
X cursors (static, animated)

Requirements:
GNU gcc >= 3.2
OpenGL libraries and headers
GLU headers
KDE 3.2x
QT 3.2x.

Installation:

First, install ksquirrel-libs:

from sources # tar zxfv ksquirrel-libs-0.6.0.tar.gz # cd ksquirrel-libs-0.6.0/ # ./configure.gnu # make # su -c 'make install'
from binary packages RPM # rpm -ihv ksquirrel-libs-0.6.0.rpm TGZ # installpkg ksquirrel-libs-0.6.0.tgz

Now install Ksquirrel:

from sources # tar zxfv ksquirrel-0.6.0.tar.gz # cd ksquirrel-0.6.0/ # ./configure.gnu # make # su -c 'make install'
from binary packages RPM # rpm -ihv ksquirrel-0.6.0.rpm TGZ # installpkg ksquirrel-0.6.0.tgz

Rebuilding package for your system

rpmbuild --rebuild ksquirrel-0.5.0.src.rpm